April Powers

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Grin and beer it.

With temperatures remaining in the mid twenties Celsius and humidity still nudging 90%, we are having something of a late summer stint here, but yesterday I did detect for the first time that initial distinct chill note in the air at the end of the day that hints at the winter to come. For the time being though, the warmer weather is helping with beer consumption, which remains regrettably low. I really need to work on that some more.

My plan for the day was to arise early and deal with the scheduled 10km run before assaulting a long list of must-do activities on what was a busy day. However, I was so tired upon waking that I groggily re-arranged things in my mind, which included running tomorrow instead of today, and went back to sleep. I even thought I felt a twinge of cramp in my right calf to help justify my decision.

Well, uh uh. My subconscious mind was having none of that it seems, for I awoke some time later with an attack of extreme guilt and actually feeling physically really quite fine. And so the run was done some little while later than scheduled, but done it was. This was another moderately tough hill climb, done slowly enough to count as aerobic zone exercise, but tough on the legs.

I have to say that afterwards I felt amazing, and zipped through the day with that feeling of leg strength that saw me climbing steps and slopes as if they were nothing. Even the knees had very little to complain about, and so I'm really pretty stoked.

With night shifts starting again tomorrow I will try to squeeze in an extra shorter run before work to keep the miles up but removing pressure from myself by being able to do a shorter run at the end of the week when the grip of night shift-induced jet lag will make longer runs near impossible.

Difficulties of scheduling aside, man I'm loving this!